The TV Is Cheap Because You Are the Ink
There was a time when printers became inexplicably cheap. You could buy an inkjet printer for less than the cost of a dinner. The reason was not generosity or
Feb 6, 2026
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Notes, technical write-ups, experiments, and whatever else survives long enough to be written down.
Dear TV Manufacturers: You Are Breaking Television and Billing Us for It
This is not about streaming existing. Streaming is fine. Choice is fine. What is not fine is quietly burying paid television service underneath your software a
Feb 6, 2026
AI Did Not Build This, Experience Did
Yesterday our CTO stopped by to look at a few parts of a new internal operations system we are building. At one point I said something like, “We have come a lon
Feb 4, 2026
High-Volume Logs Without Indexing Yourself Into a Corner
Link To the Live Dashboard shown above: https://dangerousmetrics.com/exp-hvl-logs, click the CGNAT Example link. A CGNAT Case Study in Aggregation-First Desig
Feb 3, 2026
BroadWorks XS Logs: Why “Index Everything” Is the Wrong Answer
Brought over from baremetalbridge.com as part of curating and consolidating that site into this one. Preserved here because the ideas still hold and I do not wa
Feb 3, 2026
If I Were to Build a CGNAT Processor Right Now
This is not a thought experiment and it is not a vendor pitch. This is a description of a single machine and the amount of leverage it puts back into the hands
Feb 1, 2026